I can't deny that Tencent is very good at what they do, so it's a positive for Riot and any company that gets involved with them. I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords. These guys own half of gaming at this point.

Yeah, but Tencent is extremely predatory. Most Westerners don't pay any attention, but they are one of the biggest offenders of putting out low-effort rip offs of well-known titles.

One such example of this was a rip off of Dota 2 they had in beta before it was released in China, then they tried to claim Dota 2 was a copy of their game and not the other way around. Another lies in their 10v10 MOBA, which has several character models and animations stolen from LoL and Dota both -- and the art all looks like Warcraft stuff, mostly because the game's artists are ex-Blizzard.

And let's not get into the dozens of browser-based knock offs they own. And the search engine with unsafe ads that forces itself onto all your browsers' homepages when you install certain Tencent games. Getting it removed is a pain.

Tencent is, frankly, a shitty company and their total ownership of Riot isn't really something to celebrate.